Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thickly frosted in the frigid air of Moonlight Valley, S. Dak., start of the two previous failures, the great rubbery bag grew like a mushroom in the night as 300 soldiers labored beneath floodlights to pump in 300,000 cu. ft. of helium. By dawn all was ready. The balloonists...
Last year, after months of ballyhoo, the stratosphere balloon of the U. S. Army Air Corps and the National Geographic Society climbed erratically skyward, failed to make a new record, finally smashed dramatically but dismally to smithereens (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). Last summer, after months more of ballyhoo, their second...
On many occasions before this Captain Stevens has taken pictures of the curvature of the earth with the aid of infra red rays. In the hall of the Geographical Institute among a collection of his aerial pictures there is one example of the curvature. Pictures taken on this flight from...
Captain Stevens carried on the ascent a specially constructed spectroscope, the details and mounting of which were planned in connection with Dr. Stetson among others.
Determination of whether cosmic rays resemble electrons or photons and their origin may be settled by data collected by Albert W. Stevens, lecturer in aerophotography, and Orvil A. Anderson in their stratosphere flight Monday, according to Harlan T. Stetson, research associate in Physics, who, among others, advised Captain Stevens about...